SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--USA Today has published a Pacific Legal Foundation op-ed that
applauds this week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the
voter-enacted Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI). The op-ed is
linked at this Pacific Legal Foundation blog post: http://blog.pacificlegal.org/?p=26869.

The MCRI prohibits race-based preferences in government employment,
contracting, and education. It was struck down by the Sixth U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, as somehow violating equal rights principles.

The Supreme Court did “a service for the cause of fairness — and logic —
by reversing the Sixth Circuit’s self-contradictory ruling,” Hubbard
writes.

The op-ed notes that voters in six states, counting Michigan, have
outlawed race-based preferences. Now that the Supreme Court has
correctly recognized their right to do so, “voters everywhere should
consider following suit,” Hubbard argues. In order to prevent injuries
to anyone based on race, she argues, we must prohibit government from
categorizing and judging people on the basis of skin color.

The case is Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action.
PLF’s amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of the MCRI may be
found at PLF’s website: www.pacificlegal.org.

About Pacific Legal Foundation

Donor-supported Pacific Legal Foundation (www.pacificlegal.org)
is a legal watchdog organization that litigates for limited government,
property rights, individual rights, and equal protection under the law,
in courts across the country.

In California, PLF has been the leading courtroom defender of
Proposition 209, which served as the model for the MCRI by outlawing
race- and sex-based discrimination and preferences by government.